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Trump’s push to have donors fund his $400 million White House ballroom might cost him the whole project

Donations get pushed through a nonprofit intermediary, which stands to see major profits as a result

The Independent UK

Trump claims $400 million ballroom lawsuit accidentally exposed a military secret he wasn’t supposed to spill

Trump is not backing down from his passion project.

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Trump launches 450-word rant about his ballroom and says a lawsuit to stop it being built would be ‘devastating’ for US

‘Making such a large gift to the U.S.A. was thought to be, by almost everyone, ‘A WONDERFUL THING TO DO’ — But no, as usual, I got sued,’ the president laments on Truth Social

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Trump appoints new members to panel reviewing White House ballroom

The president has long championed the construction of the proposed 90,000-square-foot addition

The Independent UK

'He Needs to Be Reminded Where He Is': Trump Sparks 'Dementia' Row With New White House Sign

Donald Trump faces renewed 'dementia' allegations after installing a gilded 'Rose Garden' sign. Critics suggest the 79-year-old POTUS is using signs as memory aids.

International Business Times UK

As Trump works to build his $400M ballroom at the White House, officials say no more construction projects are planned

White House ballroom has jumped from original estimate of $200 million to $400 million

The Independent UK

Head of group suing over White House ballroom says she trusts Trump-picked chairman to do his job

The president of the National Trust for Historic Preservation says she trusts the Trump-appointed chairman of a federal planning commission to do his job and seriously review President Donald Trump's proposal to build a ballroom at the White House

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Historic preservation trust sues Trump over White House ballroom - Roll Call

The National Trust for Historic Preservation sued the administration Friday in an effort to stop construction of the White House ballroom.

Roll Call

Seth Meyers on Trump’s White House ballroom: ‘This couldn’t be any more of a bait and switch’

Late-night hosts discussed the president’s demolition of the East Wing to make room for a huge $300m gilded ballroom

The Guardian - US

If Trump’s East Wing demolition shocks you, check out what he did to priceless works meant for the Metropolitan Museum of Art

A young Trump took on development of a historic Art Deco building on Fifth Avenue in the late 1970s

The Independent UK

MacKenzie Scott triples down on DEI with $40 million donation to African American Cultural Heritage Action Fund

In 2021, the billionaire donated $20 million to the same organization, dedicated to preserving U.S. sites associated with Black history.

Fortune

Diane Keaton's quiet activism helped preserve these Los Angeles landmarks

"I’ll never understand why architecture is considered a second cousin to painting and film," Diane Keaton wrote in 2008.

Fortune

The three lives of the Edith Farnsworth House: now, a modernist architecture icon open to all

The modernist Edith Farnsworth House has had three lives since its conception in 1951 by Mies van der Rohe; the latest is a sensitive renovation, and it's open to the public

Wallpaper

Chicago’s Chinatown, unlike similar neighborhoods elsewhere, is flourishing

It’s growing, expanding into nearby neighborhoods even as traditional Chinese American communities in other cities face pressures from development.

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President Joe Biden creates Emmett Till and Mamie Till-Mobley National Monument in Chicago and Mississippi

‘What Emmett did, he gave up a lot, but it helped a lot of people. And he still speaks from the grave,’ Emmett Till’s cousin, the Rev. Wheeler Parker Jr., who witnessed Till being kidnapped, told the Sun-Times.

Chicago Sun-Times

Century and Consumers Buildings now on national list of ‘endangered historic places’

The designation by the National Trust for Historic Preservation is more reason for the feds to reconsider their plan to wreck the historic Loop skyscrapers.

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Here's the latest list of the '11 Most Endangered Historic Places' in the U.S.

"It's very hard to narrow the list," says the Chief Preservation Officer of the National Trust for Historic Preservation. The 2023 list includes a gas station, an artist studio and two Chinatowns.

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